Rise of Legends: Follow-Up to RoN, with Fantasy-Civilisations. Just out!

AftershockVibe

Rome Total War is awesome. I'll second that!

djsamsung

Age Of Empires 3, Rise of Legends, Warhammer, and Rome Total War!

rip8fan1

Many good/great games already mentioned, but I'll add one more:

Heroes of Might and Magic V. This is a turn-based game, but it is probably the most difficult game to beat!

exarkun

Red Alert series, they are definitely comparable to Rise of Nation. Risk II maybe, but it is quite a short game, and doesn't involve much of strategy...

Fire Boar

On Gameboy Advance, there's Fire Emblem, or Advance Wars. Both have similarly awesome strategy-ness, although they might be a little different to what you might expect. Or you might not have a GBA. Well worth getting if you do, though.

Farhad

Rise of Legends and Heroes of Might and Magic 5

I still play HOMM3 because it's simply classic and dear to me.

Nameless

Fire Boar wrote:

On Gameboy Advance, there's Fire Emblem, or Advance Wars. Both have similarly awesome strategy-ness, although they might be a little different to what you might expect. Or you might not have a GBA. Well worth getting if you do, though.

2nded! Advance Wars (and subsequent sequels thereof) are very good stratergy games - much better than Fire Emblem in my opinion. Fire Emblem tends more towards an RPG with level-up and stuff, while Advance Wars' battles are all independent (which tends to mean tactics are more important that leveling up, items or anything) and they have a TON of different maps and COs (commanding officers) to play on.